Niall Cullen
Approved Driving Instructor
The learner guidance here — the lessons, the articles, the sign explanations — is written and reviewed by someone who teaches learners to drive for a living. The theory questions come from the DVSA revision question bank.
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Why that matters
A lot of learner-driver advice online is written by people who have never sat in the passenger seat while someone learns to move off on a hill. The guidance here is written from teaching it, which is why it tends to explain why a thing is marked the way it is rather than just restating a rule.
How the guidance is checked
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Checked against the source, line by line. Factual claims are verified against GOV.UK and the Highway Code rather than against another website that also got it second-hand.
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Shared figures come from one place. Figures that appear on more than one page — the pass mark for each section of the theory test — are recorded once, with the GOV.UK page they came from and the date they were last checked, and the articles are held to them automatically.
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The check itself is recorded. Each article carries what was verified, the date it was verified, the method used, and the source it was checked against — not just a note that someone looked.
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Editing it forces a re-check. Change a heading, an answer, or the description of a picture and the recorded check goes stale automatically. The page cannot publish again until it has been checked afresh.
What this site is not
- Driving Mastery is not connected with, or endorsed by, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency.
- It is revision and preparation. It does not replace lessons with an instructor, or supervised practice on real roads.
- No website can promise you a pass. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.